{"id":6754,"date":"2020-03-02T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T09:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2020-03-02T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T09:56:31","slug":"pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Relevance: Prelims: International: Health<\/span><\/h1>\n

Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n

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\u2022 Instead of calling COVID-19 spread as pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has so far been referring only to a COVID-19 \u201coutbreak\u201d, which WHO on January 30 declared was a \u201cPublic Health Emergency of International Concern\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 While an outbreak is understood to be a sudden rise in the cases of a disease in a particular place, and an epidemic as a large outbreak among a particular population or region, a pandemic, according to the WHO, is \u201cthe worldwide spread of a new disease\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2022 While the WHO looks for sustained outbreaks causing a larger-than-expected number of cases on multiple continents, there is no specific number of countries that a disease must touch for WHO to classify it as a pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The novel coronavirus disease that emerged in Wuhan, China, in the final days of last year, is now in at least 47 countries around the world, spanning every continent except Antarctica. More than 82,000 people have been infected, and over 2,800 are dead.<\/p>\n

Difference between Epidemic And Pandemic.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Epidemic<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0is a term that is often broadly used to describe any problem that has grown out of control. An epidemic is defined as “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.<\/p>\n

An epidemic is an event in which a disease is\u00a0<\/span>actively\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>spreading<\/strong>. In contrast, the term\u00a0<\/span>pandemic<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0relates to geographic spread and is used to describe a disease that affects a whole country or the entire world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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